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🔭 Telescope lenses, light path, mount
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⌚ Pendulum Clock mainspring, gears, escapement
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💧 Slow Sand Water Filter sand, charcoal, gravel
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☀️ Solar Still evaporate, condense, collect
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Traditional Thai Musical Instruments
24 classical and folk instruments, with Thai script, materials and role.
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🕰 Sundial gnomon, latitude, hour lines
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🧭 Magnetic Compass magnetised needle, pivot
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📻 Crystal Radio antenna, coil, diode
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🚿 Hydraulic Ram Pump water hammer, valves
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🚲 Bicycle Generator dynamo, regulator, battery
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🔥 Kiln chamber, draft, firing
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🖨 Printing Press type, ink, platen
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Antikythera mechanism
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Austin Little
Founder of Artificial Mind Hive
Open →Artificial Mind Hive on Wikidata (organization)Austin Little on WikidataService Pricer LLC on WikidataAustin Little on LinkedIn